Mike Mayo

Cycling enthusiast and Ruby/Rails developer @ , Shreveport, LA.

Heroku is a phenomenal service for deploying small apps since they have a great free plan. Rack-Jekyll is a gem that makes deploying a Jekyll site to Heroku easy, but there are a couple gotchas with making the current version work.

Partials in Rails are a powerful tool to create DRY-er code, but, once you go beyond the basic use-cases, you can quickly find yourself frustrated. Here's how I managed to solve one problem I ran into.